Blank Canvas: June 28th, 2023 featuring KEEYA
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Blank Canvas: June 21st, 2023 featuring Brigidy Bram co-directors and producers, Kareem Mortimer and Laura Gamse
Blank Canvas: May 24th, 2023 featuring Samantha Treco of CAB, DAF featured artist Matthew Rahming, and Romel Shearer of TERN
Blank Canvas: February 8th, 2023 featuring MAC Treasurer, Susan Garcia & Board Member, Katarina Jacobson along with Bahamian Conference Hosts, Ulrich Voges of Central Bank Art Gallery and Katrina Cartwright of the NAGB
Blank Canvas: December 14th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Lauren Perez and Romel Shearer, and artists Florence St. George and Freya Bramble-Carter
2023 MAC Conference “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB), in partnership with the Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBOB), the University of The Bahamas (UB), and the Antiquities, Monuments and Museums Corporation (AMMC), is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting the Museums Association of the Caribbean’s (MAC) Conference in Nassau, March 1-5, 2023! For the first time since its inception, the Museum Association of the Caribbean’s (MAC) Conference will take place in The Bahamas under the theme “Power of Museums: Relevancy, Advocacy, Transformation”.
The Caribbean-wide conference is a forum for the exchange of information and ideas … Read more
Blank Canvas: November 23rd, 2022 featuring TERN (Jodi Minnis, Gallery Manager), The Current at Bahamar (Averia Wright, Curator and John Cox, Creative Director) and mixed media artist Kachelle Knowles
Blank Canvas: November 16th, 2022 featuring the new Inter-Island Traveling Exhibition (ITE), “Thirty: Island Perspectives” Curators
Blank Canvas: November 9th, 2022 featuring members of the TERN team – Amanda Coulson and Jodi Minnis—and artist Melissa Alcena, Bahamian documentarian and fine art photographer
Hope is all around us
Bahamian and Caribbean artists from all genres are coming together to uplift The Bahamas through hurricane relief efforts post-Dorian
By Kevanté A.C. Cash
NAGB Correspondent
It seems as though visual artist and muralist Angelika Wallace-Whitfield may have been foreshadowing with her Ninth National Exhibition (NE9) public art project: “Hope Is A Weapon.”
During these trying times, the words that the artist penned to elaborate on the work finds us at a convenient moment and feels all too real. Much like the pressing issue placed on the backs of our nation’s leaders, Bahamians who have not been severely affected by the … Read more